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From the main outline:
2. the living dead
The Children of God are hunted and seldom can stay in any one place more than a few days before having to leave again. To his and others' great unease, Naxosos finds has become magnetic to all sorts of creatures, some human and some not, and there are many unusual and often distressing encounters. The tribe must be creative in eluding pursuit.
"The living dead" is part two of five parts of JTPYO - King of the Land of the Dead; it's not supposed to be scary, by the way, except if you read it metaphorically. The above description is admittedly sketchy; this is the outline for one part of the chapter, which - by the time we get to this part of the chapter - is about 40,000 words. The name of the excerpt is "at the house of Moratis." *Moratis is first mentioned in JTPYO - King of the Waste [5] demonstration; in short, Moratis is a dishonest merchant who ended up having to forfeit his property to the Children of God.
Naxosos and company have to leave his stepdad's ship outside of Viragos harbor when they are trying to reenter the city; they're picked up by a boatman named Paranis and transported down the coast to a fishing settlement that's also a collective of healers, where Naxosos lived for about two-and-a-half years before joining the Children of God in the desert. They have to leave this place almost immediately and go somewhere else, and this is where the above outline begins.
1. In Letratha having a discussion after escaping from the Gorardeno Nathaniel's ship Irista's Bull
2. Naxosos and Naemas want to look for Honey as they know she's in Viragos
3. They have to get a sulindar changed
4. Tolalo and Naimejo are too high-profile by this point and they can't go anywhere near Viragos without risking being caught so that's out as an option
5. They discussed staying at Moratis's house* (in Viragos) while still on Irista's Bull.
6. Joliel was the one who brought up visiting the house of Moratis as it belongs to him and he has designs on getting Naxosos alone – also to show his superior skills at, well, everything; since this is one of his holdings (over some years) in Viragos Joliel has more power here than in the field – Naxosos and Naemas hope he can be persuaded to help them deal with the Meriezirim Honey, who has grown powerful herself after parting from the Children of God
7. The warrior Zyanonchoulain (Two-Swords) has a girlfriend who lives in Viragos and the troop reasons that they can probably stay there if things get too hot at Moratis's, which is quite near the shore
8. So the members of the cohort who escaped from the Gorardeno's ship split up and only Naxosos, Naemas, Korsis, Joliel, and the warrior Two-Swords enter Viragos; although they're only a few miles from the city walls, they have to trek for quite a distance over the ground, board a landing-boat, and circle around the sea-walls to enter Viragos Port and land at a privately owned dock
Helpful, from 2019 notes - Joliel suggests they spend the night in the village and then hike back up the coast to Viragos and sneak in via some less-guarded access point than the main harbor, and hole up in the house that he won from the merchant Moratis; Here they split up, as the priests decide they will stay in Dargana Sud and the fishers are willing to let them stay…Naimejo says that he will attempt to contact his and Naemas's father so they can eventually, come what may, retreat to Tagros's holdings
9. They have to get the sulindar changed before anything can reasonably happen – upon giving Naxosos ten sulindars at their escape from Irista's Bull, Nathaniel probably didn't realize that his stepson had very little pocket change on him at that time; Tolalo and Naimejo can't expect to get money from the Temple, or do any business with it whatsoever, by this point in the story
10. This leads to the episode "at Ulnath's" which I wrote out in 2019 and published in 2020 (I think); and after that (in which Naxosos and Joliel visit a place of ill repute hoping to get change for a sulindar and have their clothes cleaned, where they meet employees Ehtan and Jahan – Naxosos heals Ehtan of a terminal rash and in return the two vow eternal service to him, if he'll save them from their current circumstances
Why are Naxosos and Naemas wanting to encounter Honey? Part of the reason was related in a conversation between Szera Zeracx and Naxosos in the excerpt from "a devil's work" called "it isn't him" - This is why the cohort turned back from their journey northward to reenter Viragos and Kheoran: Because Naxosos regrets not having dealt with Honey responsibly while performing an exorcism on her in "King of the Heights."
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